Questions about recipe cards (Graphic Design Student)

CCP

InfamyInfamy wrote: »

Time for a mini rant I do believe! Us Farmers are getting a real rough deal of it at the moment. Fuel prices are high as are the cost of feed. People want good food & to cut down air miles but for less to nothing. Many Farmers are going out of business every day. It is not just a job it is a way of life. Many have had to diversify into holiday cottages or like us storage.
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Hear hear!!

My parents live in a rural area of the Isle of Wight and have a number of farming friends, so I hear a lot about how hard life is for farmers. Any scheme which promotes the interests of British farmers would get my vote.

The main reason I would object to making a contribution is not that I think farmers don't deserve it, but that I feel the supermarkets should be paying a decent price to producers in the first place. If a supermarket charged me money for a recipe card I would strongly suspect that the majority of the money would go to the supermarket, not to the people who actually need and deserve it. (Which is why I now buy most of my food from other places - veg box scheme, farmers' market, online direct from the producer - because at least then I know the money is going to the people who produced the food, not to the supermarkets' owners and shareholders.)

One possible way round this would be for the recipe cards to be published to benefit an organisation like RABI, with the supermarkets making a public commitment that all profits from the scheme would go to the charity. If the supermarket was also more open about what they pay the producers in the first place it would be a helpful move, too.

Hmm. I seem to have gone off on a mini rant there, too - sorry, Alex! I do think you've got a good idea here, with scope for lots of different possibilities.

Akenyon03

CCP wrote: »

Hear hear!!

My parents live in a rural area of the Isle of Wight and have a number of farming friends, so I hear a lot about how hard life is for farmers. Any scheme which promotes the interests of British farmers would get my vote.

The main reason I would object to making a contribution is not that I think farmers don't deserve it, but that I feel the supermarkets should be paying a decent price to producers in the first place. If a supermarket charged me money for a recipe card I would strongly suspect that the majority of the money would go to the supermarket, not to the people who actually need and deserve it. (Which is why I now buy most of my food from other places - veg box scheme, farmers' market, online direct from the producer - because at least then I know the money is going to the people who produced the food, not to the supermarkets' owners and shareholders.)

One possible way round this would be for the recipe cards to be published to benefit an organisation like RABI, with the supermarkets making a public commitment that all profits from the scheme would go to the charity. If the supermarket was also more open about what they pay the producers in the first place it would be a helpful move, too.

Hmm. I seem to have gone off on a mini rant there, too - sorry, Alex! I do think you've got a good idea here, with scope for lots of different possibilities.

Iv just been re-reading all the replies, I understand everyones view that there shouldnt be any need to Pay for the recipe cards, because the profit the supermarkets make should already be helping the farmers, but i also understand that in most cases this isnt the case, and more needs to be done.

One thing that has come from this post is that the Local produce and traditional british dishes idea would work,
And another is that alot of people like the idea of a ring binder to keep them in (which does already happen within sainsburys but they usually dont keep many in stock, once they are gone they are gone).

One idea i have had to help the producers would be to make the cards free, but to charge a fee for the binder, 100% of the profit from this going to a charity rather than a single farmer, for example RABI.

Bronnie

Akenyon03 wrote: »

Iv just been re-reading all the replies, I understand everyones view that there shouldnt be any need to Pay for the recipe cards, because the profit the supermarkets make should already be helping the farmers, but i also understand that in most cases this isnt the case, and more needs to be done.

One thing that has come from this post is that the Local produce and traditional british dishes idea would work,
And another is that alot of people like the idea of a ring binder to keep them in (which does already happen within sainsburys but they usually dont keep many in stock, once they are gone they are gone).

One idea i have had to help the producers would be to make the cards free, but to charge a fee for the binder, 100% of the profit from this going to a charity rather than a single farmer, for example RABI.

Totally irrelevant and off-topic question, but are you a girl or a boy?

ETA you could be a mature student so male or female??

Akenyon03

Bronnie wrote: »

Totally irrelevant and off-topic question, but are you a girl or a boy?

ETA you could be a mature student so male or female??

Male lol -.-

Akenyon03

Currently cooking Hampshire Watercress soup!
Dont quite think i brought enough watercress to get the colour but ill upload some pictures when its all done!

Akenyon03

Photos of the soup, which i have to say, was ruddy LUSH!

zippychick

looks gorgeous! well done ! :j:T

BexInLondon

InfamyInfamy wrote: »

Please do think before you comment on farmers not needing support or proper reward guys, unless we want everything imported or turned over to GM crops. :eek:

Eeek indeed! I hope you didn't think I was saying I wouldn't want to support farmers. I absolutely would, which is why I don't buy supermarket veg in the first place. It's just that if Tesco said to me "give us 10p and we'll give it to a farmer" I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them! That's why I'd want to give to a registered charity.

kirstypea

RSA Design Directions competition? I'm doing this one too

Akenyon03

kirstypea wrote: »

RSA Design Directions competition? I'm doing this one too

Yup! goodluck